A man died after jumping off the fourth floor of a building on Tom Mboya Street, Nairobi.
The man landed on the balcony of the building and died on the spot in the Wednesday March 12, morning incident.
The motive of the incident is yet to be established.
Police said the incident happened at about 5.30 am and that the man leapt through a window.
The building houses offices and other commercial shops.
The body was moved from the scene and moved to the mortuary, pending identification and autopsy.
It came hours after the Chief Executive Officer of Sedgwick Kenya Insurance Brokers, Sammy Methu Kiragu died after jumping from the seventh floor of his office block.
He died after falling from the seventh floor of his office at the 4th Avenue Towers on Fourth Ngong Avenue in Nairobi.
Police said they are investigating the incident and are focusing on both suicide and murder.
They want to know if he died by suicide or was pushed off.
The incident on Tuesday March 11 in the afternoon, police said.
Police said whereas the insurance brokers’ offices are on the 14th floor, witnesses said he took a lift to the seventh floor, where he leapt to the ground floor in an apparent suicide.
He was alone then and he died on the spot. The motive of the incident is yet to be known.
Other officials said Kiragu had been approached by the police over a probe they had opened. This followed a claim by a government agency.
The brokerage was yet to comment over the incident.
In Ruai, Nairobi, a body of a man was found hanging on a ventilation of his room in Kamnyonge area.
Police later identified the victim as James Kariuki Njeri, 32 who was living alone.
His body was found hanging from an opening of a ventilation in one corner of his house.
The deceased head was stuck from the outside and the body had a bruise at the chin.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy.
Cases of suicide have been on the rise amid efforts to address the menace.
The World Health Organisation says such cases are attributed to joblessness, death, academic failures or pressures, legal and financial difficulties.
Other reasons are bullying, previous suicide attempts, history of suicide in a family, alcoholism and substance misuse, depression and bipolar disorder.
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